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Matthew Ussia
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He/him, professor, author, podcaster, noise maker. www.matthewussia.com
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mfussia77.bsky.social
I have 2 readings coming up in the next week to celebrate the launch of Saturday Night on Earth. I will have 7 copies of the book at both readings. If you want to get one from me, this is your chance
Flyer a reading on Sunday December 7th at 2:00 p.m. at 557 Greenfield Avenue. The reading features Julie Cicchini Sarah Williams-Devereaux, Kimberly McElhatten and Matthew Ussia Flyer for reading at Fungus Books at 700 1/2 Trenton Ave on Thursday December 11th at 7:00 p.m. featuring Matt Ussia, Ed Steck, and Judith Dorian
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
mfussia77.bsky.social
My second book of poetry Saturday Night on Earth, 57 shocking true tales of music geekdom and Pittsburgh DIY shenanigans, is now in the world. The link to all the links where you can preview and purchase:
www.matthewussia.com/2025/11/18/s...
Saturday Night on Earth – Matthew Ussia
www.matthewussia.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:15 AM
mfussia77.bsky.social
Out 11/17/25 on Alien Buddha Press" shocking true tales of Pittsburgh punk and my lifetime of music fandom
The front cover of Matthew Ussia's 2025 poetry collection Saturday Night on Earth. Imagine is a black and white photo of a singer and crowd at a basement punk show Back cover of the poetry book Saturday Night on Earth. Blurbs "Matthew Ussia has a gift for capturing the liberation of punk and the depth of human experience in a subculture. Saturday Night on Earth made me laugh and it made me miss my friends no longer with us. It is deeply moving to read this collection of poems that evoke the visceral feeling of being seen in the collective outside, reading clear, honest portrayals of a punk community that has shaped my life and the lives of countless other misfits." - Jim Fair (Big Baby & Positive Thinking) “Ussia’s writing opens a crack just wide enough into our secret liminal space to intrigue the uninitiated and to hopefully frighten away any tourists without the constitution for carnage and noise. Those of us who exist in this parallel universe are immediately drawn in as we recognize our own secret language and customs. This collection of ephemeral spaces, worlds built and burned in a night and those with the unwavering compulsion to wake up and do it again is a testament to Ussia’s love and respect for our community.” -Krystina Haberman (Peace Talks) “In Saturday Night on Earth, the mad professor Matthew Ussia generously invites us to tag along with him on a tour of Pittsburgh’s record stores, smoke-clogged dives, and punk shows that barely have a venue, seeking out that thing that makes us most feel alive—noise! What some people call music and what others refuse to call music. In these poems, Ussia captures what it is to be an obsessed audiowhore living in this fucked up 21st century mess, sacrificing sleep for a great show, knowing that one night of experiencing live music can change one’s life forever. ” –Scott Silsbe, author of Meet Me Where We Survive
October 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
mfussia77.bsky.social
Happy Friday everyone, I have a new poem up at MadSwirl about buying groceries and the joy of recognizing the humanity of others
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It’s Friday at Salem’s Market
& the pharmacy across the way took just long enough getting me my fat old man drugs it was time to unlock the front door after afternoon prayers seduced by the promise of basmati rice…
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October 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
mfussia77.bsky.social
The true story of my first car is in the new issue of Trailer Park Quarterly
trailerparkquarterly.com/volume-16/ma...
Matthew Ussia | Trailer Park Quarterly
Matthew Ussia is director of Duquesne University’s First Year Writing Program in spite of the fact that he got a C- in freshman writing and was rejected from Duquesne’s MA program.
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August 13, 2025 at 12:24 PM
mfussia77.bsky.social
Come see me read at Oddmonth Saturday night, follow me to Spirit for one of the two shows there, talk to me in between bands, and then see me read Sunday afternoon at the Cider and Plants Co-Op.
I won't be repeating poems between both readings
Flier for Oddmonth Reading Series at Bantha Tea Bar at 5002 Penn Ave. Pittsburgh, PA on Saturday, May 31, 2025 at 7 PM featuring Angele Ellis, Matthew Ussia, and Nikki Allen Flyer for cider and plants greenhouse poetry reading and open mic on Sunday June 1st at 2:00 p.m. at 557 Greenfield Ave, Pittsburgh featuring Joan Bauer, Jan Beatty, Ziggy Echenrode, and Matthew Ussia
May 27, 2025 at 11:32 AM
mfussia77.bsky.social
If you scroll to the bottom you can see me do a thing I do sometimes
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Hammered Hulls At The Government Center On May 8, 2025
Here are pictures that I took at the Government Center on May 8, 2025.
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May 16, 2025 at 9:41 PM
mfussia77.bsky.social
Playing a show tomorrow night (Thursday, May 8th) at Government Center with Odor Eater, Hammered Hulls, and Big Baby.
I go on at 8
Flier made out of felt cut outs for a show featuring Odor Eater, Hammered Hulls, Big Baby, and Theremonster
May 7, 2025 at 12:23 PM
mfussia77.bsky.social
Happy Monday Morning,
I got a new poem up at a publication I've thought it would be cool to be in for a long time asitoughttobemagazine.com/matthew-ussi...
Matthew Ussia: “Home Improvement Advice for AnyoneOwning a House More Than One Hundred Years Old”
Home Improvement Advice for AnyoneOwning a House More Than One Hundred Years Old Know that its indifference to you isn’t personalyou are, after all, just the meaty thingthat sleeps inside its walls…
asitoughttobemagazine.com
April 14, 2025 at 11:41 AM
mfussia77.bsky.social
Proud to have my work inside the new issue of the Northern Appalachia Review.
Excited that my poem "Loretto: The Triggering Town" is on page 1, because everyone who picks up a copy has to read page 1, right?!
The front cover of Volume 6 of the Northern Appalachia Review, a landscape painting in an impressionist style
March 19, 2025 at 6:08 PM
mfussia77.bsky.social
Happy Night of the Worm Moon everybody
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Shana Cleveland - "Night of the Worm Moon"
YouTube video by Hardly Art Records
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March 13, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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anthonykapfer.bsky.social
you ever think about how we’re all just farting in outer space?
March 12, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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docsthilaire.bsky.social
Very excited to be interviewed about my forthcoming book in @ksupress.bsky.social’s blog! Like early modern stuff? Care about feelings? Want to know why we should study lit? Check out the post (and in May, my book)!
ksupress.bsky.social Kent State University Press @ksupress.bsky.social · Mar 10
The award-winning Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies book series recently moved to Kent State UP, and its first book in the new iteration—@docsthilaire.bsky.social's "The Art of Pity"—will be published in May. We talked with St. Hilaire and with series coeditor Rebecca Totaro.
Our series in Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies: A Q&A with Danielle St. Hilaire and Rebecca Totaro
The award-winning Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies book series recently moved to Kent State University Press, and its first book—Danielle St. Hilaire’s The Art of Pity—will be publ…
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March 10, 2025 at 10:38 PM
mfussia77.bsky.social
I took my bad feelings about these times and made sounds
theremonster.bandcamp.com/album/at-the...
At the Mercy of the Pampered Princelings, by Theremonster
4 track album
theremonster.bandcamp.com
March 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM
mfussia77.bsky.social
I do a podcast with my life partner where we review movies we watch on obsolete physical media formats.
music.youtube.com/watch?v=sWUa...
VHS tape and box for the 1983 film Flashdance
March 5, 2025 at 1:20 PM
mfussia77.bsky.social
I did a podcast interview with the great and prolific poet John Dorsey
music.youtube.com/watch?v=T_X4...
Ep. 118 Millennial Burying Ground
YouTube video by MUssia77
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March 5, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Reposted by Matthew Ussia
dltsgdom.bsky.social
Here’s a bunch of shows happening in Pittsburgh in March! I make these every month. They are in no way comprehensive so I encourage you to keep a look out for more or make your own. Save this to your phone, print it out and hang it somewhere in public, share with your friends!
March 1, 2025 at 3:37 PM
mfussia77.bsky.social
If anybody can do me a solid and let me know about the most bizarre commercials this year, the ones that really strip American ideology bare, because I haven't stopped thinking about this movie since I got bored with the Super Bowl last year and put it on, so I'm going to watch it again.
The DVD box for the 1946 film A Matter of Life and Death by Powell and Pressburger
February 9, 2025 at 11:57 PM
mfussia77.bsky.social
Hildy's origin story is the featured poem today on MadSwirl.
madswirl.com/poetry/2025/...
A large white dog relaxing on a couch that it is slowly destroying
February 8, 2025 at 1:15 PM
mfussia77.bsky.social
My Theremonster alter ego has a gig
Flier for a musical performance at the Bantha Tea Bar at 5002 Penn Ave in the Garfield neighborhood of Pittsburgh on Thursday Feb 27th at 7:30, featuring Detroit Art Noise Punks Throwaway with local acts Skeletonized and Theremonster. Admission is 10 dollars and the show is open to all ages.
February 7, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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dltsgdom.bsky.social
Someone complimented my Larval State pin on the bus. Anyway Larval State is a sick Pittsburgh band that sounds like a dark B-52’s
February 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM
mfussia77.bsky.social
There's a Renault Alliance and a Fuego in the Ned Ryerson scene
February 3, 2025 at 2:29 AM
mfussia77.bsky.social
I have long believed that the Irish understand what it means to be American better than we do niallconnolly.bandcamp.com/track/americ...
America, by Niall Connolly
from the album Brother, the Fight is Fixed
niallconnolly.bandcamp.com
January 30, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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skunkcabbages.bsky.social
Out today: three Allegheny Plateau goblins bring you a demo. Listen online, pre-order the tape, hang out at a slagheap near you

dukkhacrust.bandcamp.com/album/dukkha
Dukkha, by Dukkha
7 track album
dukkhacrust.bandcamp.com
January 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
mfussia77.bsky.social
If you went to college
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now?

1. Dunno, one thing I was sure about, everyone who said I should be a professor was wrong
2. Undecided
3. English Lit
4. Professor
skunkcabbages.bsky.social Conopholis americana enjoyer @skunkcabbages.bsky.social · Jan 22
If you went to college
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now?

1. Casually interested in teaching HS bio
2. Undeclared (no bio dept would admit me bc test scores)
3. Horticulture
4. Adjunct prof
skwinnicki.bsky.social SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · Jan 21
If you went to college
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now?

1. History professor
2. History
3. Added a biology degree, then two more
4. Biology postdoc, might be a professor someday (🤞)
January 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM